INTRODUCTION. 



THE scene of the following papers, contributed in the 

 first place to " Baily's Magazine/' is chiefly confined to 

 the region of Cornouaille, in and around the Black 

 Mountains of Lower Brittany, where the Author resided 

 for two winters, and enjoyed the wild sport obtainable 

 in the surrounding forests. 



The main features of the narrative may be relied 

 on ; but at the same time he wishes it to be distinctly 

 understood, in liminc, that, owing to the want of sufficient 

 records kept at the time, he has been compelled to 

 depend in some measure for its production both on 

 memory and fancy, twenty years having elapsed since 

 he paid his last visit to that interesting country. 



